Re: [HACKERS] now 6.4
Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: scrappy@hub.org (The Hermit Hacker)
Cc: dg@illustra.com, hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1998-06-10T19:10:45Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> > On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, David Gould wrote: > > > Bruce Momjian: > > > PG_VERSION is now 6.4. initdb everyone. Or did we decide not to do > > > this if we could help it. I think we will still need to run initdb, and > > > move the data files. > > > > I had thought we were going to avoid changing this unless there were changes > > to persistant structures. Do you know what changed to require this? > > Huh? PG_VERSION should reflect that which we release, so that ppl > know what version they are running, for bug reports and whatnot... It also requires the postmaster/postgres to match that version so they can run. PG_VERSION gets set at initdb time, so if we update it, we basically require them to run initdb so it matches the backend/postmaster version. -- Bruce Momjian | 830 Blythe Avenue maillist@candle.pha.pa.us | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026 + If your life is a hard drive, | (610) 353-9879(w) + Christ can be your backup. | (610) 853-3000(h)